Back in my late 20s and early 30s, somewhere on the way to learning how to write like a grownup, I learned the rules for constructing a paragraph. Here on the verge of 63 and retirement, I find that ...

Has the five-paragraph essay, long a staple in school writing curricula, outlived its usefulness? The venerable writing tool has largely fallen out of favor among influential English/language arts ...

There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

Paragraphs remain one of the most important parts of writing. They serve as containers for ideas and help break up large chunks of text, making your content easier to read. But knowing how to write a ...

Christina Dalcher dedicated her debut novel, Vox, to Charlie Jones, "linguist, professor, friend". Dalcher earned a doctorate in linguistics from Georgetown University in 2006, with a dissertation ...

Last week, the San Francisco-based literary agent Nathan Bransford announced his 2nd Sort-of-Annual Stupendously Ultimate First Paragraph Challenge, inviting writers to send in the openings of their ...

This page will explore the key features of critical writing to help you to demonstrate your critical thinking abilities in your work. A paragraph or section of critical writing (sometimes called ...

For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with ...